Obvious cybersecurity rule

ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world to 196@lemmy.blahaj.zone – 325 points –
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Leader: "Alright, while he's working on breaking into their system, we'll--"

Hacker: "I'm in."

Leader: "That fast? Did you find some zero-day to exploit?"

Hacker who just tried username "admin", password "password": "Yyyyeeeeeees?"

To this day, database hacks (top 1000 most popular passwords) and reverse hacks (a few popular passwords on a few thousand accounts) still often result in successful penetrations.

The weakest security link is between chair and keyboard.